The Lake Palace, The Lake Pagoda and The Lake Pavilion make up The Oriental Lake Collection - three captivating novels of love, loss and survival set in Asia during the 1930s and 40s. In each book, an iconic and mystical lake plays an important role; a remote mountain lake in British India where Royal princesses once bathed (The Lake Pavilion), a Maharajah's palace on a lake in a Princely state (The Lake Palace), or the ancient and holy lake pagoda in Hanoi, French Indochina